Re: informix market share

From: Mark Townsend <markbtownsend_at_comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:16:16 -0800
Message-ID: <438A4C50.9020102@comcast.net>

Mark Townsend wrote:

> rkusenet wrote:
> 

>> "xiaoxin" <lixiaoxinwb_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1133132461.988551.14130_at_z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>>> The market share for Informix was about 5% in 2004, down 1% from 2003.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any links to support your figure?
>>
>>
>>
>> check this post
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_frm/thread/4a450c920bbca6f3/f79b304206e42a46?lnk=st&q=insubject%3Amarket+insubject%3Ashare+insubject%3A2003&rnum=1&hl=en#f79b304206e42a46
>>
>>
>> It talks about market share in 2003.
>>
>> Here is how the market share of Informix was reached.
>>
>> In 2003, total license sales of RDBMS on Unix/Linux was 2.34 billion
>> dollars.
>> Informix's share was 140 million. That makes it 5.98%.
>>
>> Flame: RDBMS on Windows amounted to 2.79 billion.
>> That means database sell more on windows than on Unix.
>> So much for MS being crap in OS.
>>
>>

> Shouldn't that calculation be 140 million of the _total_ 7.6 billion 
> marketshare in 2003 ? i.e about 1.8% in 2003, now 1.4% in 2004, over .4% 
> of a percent drop, or approximately a total of 108 million in revenue 
> (or a 22% drop in revenue year over year). Those figures are believable
> 

Sorry - error in the numbers.

It's 7.06 billion not 7.6 billion.

That makes the calculations as follows:
About 2% market share in 2003
.6 of a percent drop
Approximate revenue in 2004 of around 98 million (or a 30% drop in revenue year over year)

$100 million in revenue a year, dropping by 30% a year ? I hope Janet doesn't have to pay the vig on the loan personally :-) Received on Sun Nov 27 2005 - 18:16:16 CST